# Getting a dynamic selected field from an activescaffold...?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/getting-a-dynamic-selected-field-from-an-activescaffold/136513>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [May 2, 2008, 10:31pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/getting-a-dynamic-selected-field-from-an-activescaffold/136513 "2008-05-02T22:31:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![emuen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/96bed5/32.png) [@emuen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/emuen)\
**Post date:** [May 2, 2008, 10:31pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/getting-a-dynamic-selected-field-from-an-activescaffold/136513/1 "2008-05-02T22:31:34Z")

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Hi there.

I need to get a specific field from a activescaffold object. The  
specific field must be editable, and must de available to be set to a  
new value, thus the object.send(:field) will not work, since it only  
gets the value, but does not enable reasigning a new value to the field.

Is theer a way to do this?